No matter where you look these days, there's a profound sense here in the west that the people no longer having any tangible control over what our governments do. Sure, we are allowed to vote every once in a while, but effectively, most of our countries are governed by backroom deals and corporate interests. If matters really do get out of hand, how do we fight this? Well, with technology of course!

...also of anti-science crazy stuff, and such (which is, really, just very convenient for certain flavour of ~corporations; specifics not even that important, just his overall demonstrated willingness to ignore solid evidence); inflexible "principles" not necessarily a good thing.